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Whenever a new set comes into existences, the public clamors for all the content they can get about it. However, it isn’t very often that you see and article talking about what actually happens. What cards were actually good? What cards were more over hyped than Q2hhbGljZSBvZiB0aGUgVoid

? Sometimes, I just like getting the answers to those questions. This time, I think I have them myself.

Before we get too far ahead of ourselves, I would like to state that all these ratings and opinions are from my personal experience I have amassed in the past two months. The use of these cards in limited is not calculated.

To say I was surprised by this card is an underestimate. I thought the card was going to be just another rare to sit in my binder. However, I have changed my mind drastically. Erayo is funny for a few reasons. First it seems hard to flip. With the cards provided by Eighth Edition and Kamigawa Block that is a true sentiment. When you add in the cheap artifacts of Mirrodin, it becomes almost child’s play to flip Erayo. From then on you are almost on autopilot. At Regionals I witnessed a player flip it turn one. He won that game. Then I saw him flip it turn 5 and it won him the game. The guy finished with a record of 7-2. If Erayo doesn’t show up in Extended, I will be very surprised.

O-NaginataWhen I saw this card played for the first time I was puzzled. It seemed like it didn’t do enough to really help. Of course that was in limited. The next week I showed up at the shop and saw Black Hand in testing. The equipment was stellar. It gave everyday 3/3s that needed some evasion a huge boost in power and that very useful ability called trample. It makes Black Hand in the way that Time of Need

for you isn’t attractive in the least bit. However, the ability to cash in your land for a fatty is very sound and the drawback isn’t too steep to keep it out of Black decks. We went from one, to two, and finally up to three Tombs in Black Hand because the card is so strong. In the mirror, the flying makes up a lot of ground. Against WW it is a fatty that only has to worry about Jitte. Of course you always have to worry about Jitte.

The Hands are very powerful and fit into the two aggressive decks in the format that are currently being played. In the White against Black match ups, whoever gets the upper hand wins. Sometimes a Hand with a Jitte will just steal the game. Other times it will serve as Moat

This card is really tough to decipher. Sometimes it is just huge. Getting a 6/6 for three mana is very good. The problem is that your opponent can just dump their hand pretty easily. The few times I have cast Adamaro after turn 3, he has been quite horrid. However, when I dropped him on turn 2, he dealt about 10 damage all by his lonesome. With Birds of Paradise

” for the first time. I, like most everyone else, was swept up in the madness. However, I soon learned that Ponza would rather just destroy one or two land and win with Arc-Slogger. While being very synergistic with Adamaro, that one-two punch doesn’t show up on time and together often. Simply put, the card has less in common with the card Armageddon

When the Epic mechanic was first shown, people were floored. However, it was soon apparent the true cost of the spell was too much. The actual mana cost of the spell is seven mana. That is quite tough to pull off reasonably early. However, you lose all surprise once you have it resolve. No longer can you have that hidden Wrath effect. You get to play one card a turn at the same time every turn. No frills, no surprises. Even if you can down a lock, the winning is still difficult. People still are trying to make it work, but I am not sure if you could make it work even with Form of the Dragon

do anything special. Let alone anything at all. However, I do think that the potential is there. It gives Red and Black an answer to enchantments. Blue has ways to stop artifacts. It just gives a little bit of utility to all colors. Now I just need to see what it really does.

Kataki, War’s WageSupposedly this card wrecks Affinity. I know it kills the speed that makes Affinity so attractive. I think it is better than Energy Flux

since you can main deck it and still just smash when the whole anti artifact ability isn’t so useful. The problem is that I don’t know how effective the legend is, if it is effective at all. Don’t be surprised if Kataki becomes a sleeper hit.

. Sometimes you have the fatty in play and smash and then a situation comes up when you have to sweep the board clean. Often it will turn out what you already know what you are going to use it as before you even play it. I just don’t know if it will match the hype.

ariThis nifty equipment is starting to show up more often. I think that by the end of the Block season it will be the second most common equipment card (behind Umezawa’s Jitte of course) played. In testing we have seen the boost in toughness to matter greatly and the ability to gain Jitte advantage is invaluable. Just too beneficial to not be included in the fun. Maybe other people will think my way soon.

So that wraps up that.

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